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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

John Ortberg

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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